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He Entered the Vast Realm Outside the Matrix: Terry Reid

When he was offered the lead-vocalist slot for Led Zeppelin in 1968, Terry Reid had already decided to tour with Cream. So the Songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist suggested to Jimmy Page that he meet Robert Plant . . . and the rest is . . . history?

In Search of Love & Redemption in America:The Pines

Sorrow+Longing+Sweetness=Beauty. And there is such beauty here in the plaintive songs of The Pines, such sparseness of arrangement, that you can hear the haunting echoes of a distant time into the past and a distant time into the future that —in some

In A Dark Time She Gave the Light of Love: Julian of Norwich

It is not surprising that the first female author in human history to write a book in English wrote it on Love. She also happened to be a mystic. This grand woman was Julian of Norwich. My introduction to the writings of the Western mystics came abou

He Painted Windows To Our Lost Inner Worlds: William Blake

“Since childhood, [William]Blake had visions, which, unlike most people, stayed with him throughout life – if not grew in their intensity. He believed that this gift was innate within all, but that he[Blake] had merely retained it beyond childh

He Painted the Earth’s Contours of the Soul: Nicholas Roerich

Being in the world (of illusion) but not of it, is the fate and destiny, lot and opportunity of the mystic. Some mystics (unconscious of their state) try their best to fit into the matrix of canned “reality” and can live lifetimes of prof

A Westerner Returned to the Center: Bede Griffiths

My early influences during my first years as a monk were Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, and the most dear to me, Bede Griffiths. The first book that I had read from this English Benedictine who’d become a renunciate in India in the 1950’

Neale Lundgren Ph.D.

In recent years I have been compelled to reflect on how to bring the sacred into daily life. In this blog I wish to share with those who are interested what I am continually learning as regards preparation for living an authentic life and how to incorporate a mature and healthy mystical approach to living in the world. May each and everyone of you who happen upon this page feel free to join me in this ongoing conversation from the cave of the heart.